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SPACEX LAUNCHES 400-FOOT-TALL ROCKET THAT WILL HELP DEFINE ITS FUTURE

SpaceX launched an upgraded version of its Starship rocket from a new launchpad at its Starbase facility on Friday. The booster successfully separated from the spacecraft, but it wasn't able to conduct an engine maneuver and eventually crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Starship lost one of its engines but was able to make it to space. It deployed devices that mimic satellites, as well as two satellites that took images of the flying spacecraft. Starship exploded after it touched down in the Indian Ocean.

SUNDAR PICHAI UNDERSTANDS WHY PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS ABOUT AI

Sundar Pichai believes that AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. He says it is natural that people feel anxious about the future the technology will bring, especially with its extraordinary pace of progress. Pichai thinks the industry has to do a lot more work in showing the benefits that are possible with the technology. This article contains a transcript of an interview with Pichai where he discusses the future of Google Search, how he's using AI agents, and his advice for college students.

CHINA LAUNCHES SHENZHOU-23 MISSION WITH POTENTIAL RECORD ONE-YEAR STAY IN ORBIT

China's Shenzhou-23 mission sent three astronauts to the Tiangong space station on Sunday. One crew member may remain in orbit for a full year, the longest human space mission in China's history. The astronaut selected for the extended stay will be determined later during the mission. The mission will also conduct the first autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking procedure with Tiangong's core module, a capability expected to support future lunar operations.

INSIDE THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BET ON FUSION ENERGY

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is the world's biggest bet on fusion energy. At an estimated cost of $22 billion, ITER is a donut-shaped vacuum chamber designed to contain temperatures 10 times hotter than the core of the Sun. The project is so daunting in scale that longtime geopolitical rivals are collaborating on the project, pooling their resources to share in its potential risks and rewards. This article provides an overview of the project and contains a video showing what the heart of the experiment looks like.

AUTH.MD

auth.md provides secure agent registration that any app can implement. The Markdown file tells agents how to register on behalf of users, informing them which flows are supported, which scopes exist, and how to register for services. Agents' identity providers vouch for users - no human interaction is required.

A HACKER GROUP IS POISONING OPEN SOURCE CODE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE

TeamPCP is deploying supply chain attacks at an unprecedented scale, turning what was an occasional nightmare into a near-weekly episode. It has corrupted hundreds of open source tools, sowing a new level of distrust in the ecosystem used to create the world's software. Even GitHub has been breached by the group through a poisoned VSCode extension. The group appears to be financially motivated as it often deploys ransomware or data extortion campaigns against its targets. It is also willing to sell victims' data to any buyer.

MEET MARK ZUCKERBERG'S RIGHT-HAND MAN WHO'S UNLEASHING AI AT META

Andrew Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for more than 20 years, is leading Meta's gargantuan efforts to transform itself into an AI-first company that can innovate as fast as nimble startups. Bosworth is set to make nearly $1 billion if he can help increase Meta's market cap by more than 500% in the next five years. His focus now is on getting workers to use AI more in their work, and when possible, hand tasks over to it entirely. This article takes a look at his career up until now.

PREDICTING AI JOB EXPOSURE

Many people would like to be able to predict which jobs, companies, and industries will be most affected by AI. However, this is mostly impossible. Past technology trends have seen some industries that should have suffered end up bigger, and some of the industries that should have been immune suffer. Right now, there are too many factors at play to predict what the impact of AI will be.

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IT'S LIKE THE OLYMPICS - EXCEPT STEROIDS ARE ALLOWED

The Enhanced Games features dozens of elite athletes on legal performance-enhancing drugs all trying to break world records.

ANTHROPIC PREPARES MYTHOS 1 FOR CLAUDE CODE AND CLAUDE SECURITY

Mythos is now being used to help protect a wider range of organizations and will be made public once the right safeguards are in place.

META LAUNCHES FORUM, A NEW REDDIT-LIKE APP FOR FACEBOOK GROUPS

Forum is a dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers, and communities.

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DON'T ROLL YOUR OWN ...

Developers should stop rolling out features that browsers already do well.

THE ETERNAL SLOPTEMBER

The adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes of the field's history.

SNAP SPECS TRUE AR GLASSES REPORTEDLY LAUNCH THIS FALL FOR AROUND $2500

Snap Specs will be the first relatively normal-looking glasses that can place interfaces and virtual objects onto users' physical space without significantly dimming or distorting their view of the real world.

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ANTHROPIC PREPARES MYTHOS 1 FOR CLAUDE CODE AND CLAUDE SECURITY

Anthropic appears to be moving Claude Mythos to broader availability, with the model now helping protect a wider range of organizations. Traces of the model have already surfaced on Google Cloud and AWS through vulnerability discovery programs. A release for Mythos 1 seems imminent. Claude Opus 4.8 is also rumored to be in the works for release.

DEEPSEEK MADE ITS 75% DISCOUNT PERMANENT. THE AI PRICE WAR JUST ESCALATED

DeepSeek has permanently cut V4 Pro prices by 75%. The promotion was originally scheduled to expire at the end of the month. DeepSeek's pricing sits below OpenAI's GPT-5, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7, and Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash. The gap is widest against the frontier reasoning models that enterprise customers rely on for demanding workloads.

MEASURING LLMS' ABILITY TO DEVELOP EXPLOITS

Mythos Preview is capable of turning vulnerabilities into exploit primitives and combining those primitives together into complete end-to-end attack chains. The knowledge and expertise required to develop exploits will drop significantly as the model's capabilities become more widely available. This article looks at the model's performance on ExploitBench and ExploitGym, two newer, more challenging academic benchmarks. Mythos Preview consistently outperforms all other evaluated models on these tests.

EXPLORING AGENT-ASSISTED QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

Qualitative analysis is the process of reading a lot of messy, unstructured data and figuring out what is interesting, recurring, surprising, or important. One of the biggest research questions at the moment is, 'What is the right way to do agent-assisted qualitative analysis?' This post looks at the background of the field, proposes an experimental setup, and discusses how the field should move forward. It is still unclear whether AI agents can replace humans in qualitative analysis, but they can currently do the mechanical parts of qualitative analysis fast - just without taste.

THE NEOCLOUD BOOM

SpaceX bought xAI, took the two Colossus data centers Elon built, and started renting them to Anthropic for $15 billion a year. SpaceX did $18.7 billion in total revenue last year after 23 years of building rockets, so they almost doubled the company in a quarter by becoming a cloud provider. The bigger math is wilder, the AI buildout adds up to $7.5 trillion of spend over the next 4.5 years, about 5% of US GDP and on par with the 1880s railroad boom. Even if neoclouds only catch 20% of the $13.5 trillion of value that buildout creates, that's $2.5 trillion up for grabs because no handful of hyperscalers can build it all.

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THE 2026-07-28 MCP SPECIFICATION RELEASE CANDIDATE

The release candidate for the next Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification is now available. It is the largest revision of the protocol since launch. The candidate introduces a stateless core that scales on ordinary HTTP infrastructure, extensions, authorization that aligns more closely with OAuth and OpenID Connect deployments, a formal deprecation policy, and many other changes. It contains breaking changes. The final specification will ship on July 28.

EVALUATING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS AT SCALE

OpenAI outlined a macro-evaluation workflow for agentic systems that analyzes patterns across entire populations of traces rather than isolated failures.

REASONIX

Reasonix is a DeepSeek-native coding agent for the terminal. It is engineered around prefix-cache stability and designed to be left running. Token costs stay low across long sessions.

LANCE (HUGGING FACE REPO)

Lance is a lightweight native unified multimodal model that supports image and video understanding, generation, and editing. It delivers strong performance across image generation, image editing, and video generation benchmarks with just 3B active parameters. The model was trained entirely from scratch within a 128-A100-GPU budget. Examples of clips generated by the model are available in the repository.

DAVID SACKS'S 11TH-HOUR PLEA LED TO TRUMP'S BACKTRACK ON AI EXECUTIVE ORDER

David Sacks, a venture Capitalist, warned President Trump on a call that the long-awaited executive order on the dangers posed by artificial intelligence that Trump was deliberating on could lead to mandatory regulations that slow down the industry in its race with Chinese competitors. Trump responded that he shared concerns about China and was worried about hindering AI investment. He then postponed the signing and told reporters he wouldn't sign the order. The incident shows how powerful Sacks' influence is and marks a win for those against strong guardrails to limit the risks posed by the technology.

ANTHROPIC'S MARCH TO PROFITABILITY

Anthropic is on track to do $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue, up from $4.8 billion in Q1, growing faster right now than Zoom did at the peak of the pandemic. The thing that flipped them to profit is compute getting cheaper, 71 cents of compute per revenue dollar in Q1, 56 cents in Q2. Claude Code on its own is at $2.5 billion in revenue, and the company expects to clear $559 million in profit just in time for its October IPO. The "AI labs burn money forever" story finally has a hole in it.

PAPERWORK IS BETTER WHEN YOU CAN JUST TALK THROUGH IT

ChatGPT users can now upload a form image, add the details they want included, and the chatbot can fill it out for them.

BUMBLEBEE GOES OPEN SOURCE

Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee, a read-only security scanner that identifies risky packages, extensions, and AI tool configurations on developer machines.

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GEMINI 3.5 FLASH (LOW)

Gemini 3.5 Flash (Low) generates around 45% fewer tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) and generally outperforms Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) on SWE tasks.

ANTHROPIC PLANS CLAUDE MEMORY UPDATE WITH NEW MEMORY FILES

Memory Files distributes notes across multiple structured documents organized by topic, project, or context.

APPLE'S ANNIVERSARY EDITION IPHONE LEAKS IN DREAMY RENDERS AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR ITS 2027 DEBUT

Apple is reportedly developing a radically redesigned anniversary iPhone for 2027, unofficially dubbed the “iPhone XX” or “iPhone 20,” featuring a heavily curved glass display, rounded chassis, and a more futuristic look than current models. Rumors also point to under-display Face ID, a smaller camera cutout, thinner display tech, solid-state buttons, and upgraded camera sensors, though some prototypes oddly show only two rear cameras, suggesting it may be a special-edition device rather than a standard Pro model.

WE'RE INTRODUCING REAL TIME DESIGN WITH GOOGLE STITCH

Stitch is a real-time design tool from Google that allows collaborative partnership with an AI agent for live design iterations. Users can input ideas through text or voice prompts, and Stitch streams its work directly to the canvas while allowing real-time steering of the design process. Completed designs can be exported to Google Antigravity for backend integration or published directly to the web through Netlify.

REPLIT LAUNCHES THE NEWEST VERSION OF ITS POPULAR VIBE CODING APP

Replit has released Agent 4, the newest version of its popular vibe coding app, after Apple lifted a temporary ban that lasted four months. The update includes new features like parallel agents for working on multiple ideas simultaneously, project collaboration through merged flows, and multi-workspace project viewing. While the specific compromise between Apple and Replit regarding App Store guidelines remains unclear, the app is now available for download on iPhone and iPad.

WHAT WE LOST IN THE AI CHAT STREAM

AI chat tools are powerful for brainstorming and refining ideas, but chat histories are poor at preserving meaningful work because they trap useful insights inside long streams of iterative back-and-forth that people rarely revisit. Relying too heavily on AI can reduce critical thinking and problem framing, especially when users skip the deliberate sketching and reflection that traditionally helped shape ideas. AI works best as a production tool after humans have already clarified the problem, structure, and intent themselves.

STAFF DESIGNERS AREN'T ABOUT SHIPPING THE BEST WORK. THAT'S THE POINT

Staff designers create value through direction rather than individual output, focusing on setting design priorities, quality standards, and system consistency while coaching others. The transition from senior to staff requires moving away from personally solving the hardest design problems and instead enabling the team to ship better work collectively. Many strong senior designers struggle with this shift because they must outgrow the individual contributor skills that made them successful.

AI GIVES US THE PROTOTYPE. IT DOESN'T GIVE US THE BRAND

AI tools can handle about 80% of the design process competently, including structural elements and prototypes, but cannot deliver the remaining 20% that creates brand identity and emotional connection with users. The reliance on AI is causing design parity, where all interfaces look similar because companies ship the AI-generated 80% without adding the creative elements that differentiate brands. This creates a brand erosion problem where digital interfaces lose their ability to communicate unique brand personality and values to users.

FRONTIER AI FOR MOTION DESIGN

Motion is an AI motion graphics studio to create and iterate on graphics in minutes.

LAUNCH-READY PRODUCT DEMO VIDEOS

Slideshot is an AI agent that creates product demo videos by automatically navigating web apps based on text descriptions, eliminating the need for manual screen recording and editing.

IN 2026, HERE'S WHAT CREATIVE RECRUITERS ARE LOOKING FOR IN JUNIORS

Breaking into the design industry is tougher than ever because of AI, competition, and the economy, but studios still want junior talent who can show original thinking, explain the reasoning behind their work, and bring curiosity, personality, and a willingness to learn. Recruiters care less about perfectly polished portfolios and more about creativity, attitude, communication skills, and whether someone seems adaptable, collaborative, and genuinely passionate about design.

TECHNICAL READINESS AND CREATIVE BRAVERY: INSTRUMENT AGENCY'S FORMULA FOR LEADING THE CHARGE IN DESIGN

Instrument is a design and technology company built around the idea that creativity and technology are inseparable, using interconnected design systems and experimentation to solve complex brand and business problems for clients like Spotify, Google, and Ōura. The company sees AI as a tool that can accelerate prototyping, automate repetitive tasks, and support creative expression, but argues that real creativity still depends on human taste, perspective, and originality — qualities AI cannot replace.